New Baltimore on US 9W
Driving along US 9W, South of Coeymans in New Baltimore. Fairly open country, some businesses and hobby farms.
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Driving along US 9W, South of Coeymans in New Baltimore. Fairly open country, some businesses and hobby farms.
David Jones dusts his house in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore almost daily. He rarely opens his windows, even when the weather is beautiful, because the outdoor air makes him feel sick.
Immediately across the street is the Curtis Bay coal terminal, where heaps of coal taller than Jones' house are piled up for overseas shipment. Dust from the coal mounds enters people's cars, homes — and lungs.
"You wake up in the morning and your throat hurts," Jones says. In the bathroom sink, he can see black specks in his spit.
Jones is one of millions of people in the United States who live with dangerous air pollution, including gases like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, ground-level ozone and tiny particulates that coat every surface. Some particles are so small they worm deep into the lungs and cross into the brain.
"Alarming new statistics show traffic fatalities in the United States are at its worst in 50 years and thereβs concern this trend could get worse."
"According to a recent report from the National Safety Council, about 19,100 people have died in traffic wrecks so far this year. A 9-percent jump compared to the same time last year."
Most people when they think of the Catskill Forest Preserve don't think of the Town of Greenville as having any of the Catskill Mountains in it. But the state owns a small, dedicated forest preserve parcel off of Hillcrest Road and Spring Valley Roads in Greenville/New Baltimore. As a kid I used to ride my bicycle out that way, past the heavily wooded Forest Preserve, although there isn't a great deal to say about it -- it's hardly unique.